October 5, 2017 – Capri Insurance Services Ltd. & Intercity Insurance Services Inc. have been trusted insurance and risk management partners in the Canadian equine industry for more than twenty years. With new agreements recently forged with the Ontario Equestrian, Manitoba Horse Council and the Newfoundland and Labrador Equestrian Association, the organization is now in [...]

On November 21, 2017, a positive Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA) result was confirmed by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) national reference laboratory for a horse on a premise in Havelock, Quebec.
This animal had been sampled by an accredited veterinarian prior to it being moved to a new premise; clinical signs of the disease were [...]

Stouffville, ON (November 23, 2017) – Equestrians holding a festive barn party or exchanging gifts with their riding friends this holiday season can help an abused, neglected or homeless horse by giving a gift from the Ontario SPCA’s Paws & Give™ 2017 Holiday Symbolic Giving Catalogue.
Horse lovers can “adopt” their very own horse by bringing [...]

Toronto, Ontario – The horses of Blue Ribbon Days Percherons, owned by the Albert Cleve and Jim Day families and driven by Dean Woodbury, won the $25,000 Royal Six-Horse Draft Championship on Saturday, November 11, at the Royal Horse Show, held as part of the 95th Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto, ON.
The $25,000 Royal [...]

Toronto, Ontario – Hardin Towell of the United States claimed a thrilling victory in the $87,000 GroupBy Big Ben Challenge on Saturday night, November 11, to close out the CSI4*-W Royal Horse Show, held as part of the 95th Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in downtown Toronto, ON.
A sold-out crowd of more than 6,000 spectators packed [...]

Toronto, Ontario – Canadian Olympian Megan Lane of Collingwood, ON, won the $20,000 Royal Invitational Dressage Cup, presented by Butternut Ridge, for the second year in a row on Thursday, November 9, at the Royal Horse Show in Toronto, ON.
Lane and her long-time mount, Caravella, defended their title by performing the same freestyle routine [...]

Toronto, Ontario – Four-time U.S. Olympic medalist Beezie Madden won the $35,000 Brickenden Trophy on Thursday, November 9, at the CSI4*-W Royal Horse Show, held as part of the 95th Royal Agricultural Winter Fair running through November 13 in downtown Toronto, ON.
Madden of Cazenovia, NY, was the one to beat in a 15-horse jump-off over [...]

Toronto, Ontario – Kent Farrington of the United States won the $150,000 Longines FEI World Cup™ Jumping Toronto on Wednesday night, November 8, at the CSI4*-W Royal Horse Show, held as part of the 95th Royal Agricultural Winter Fair running through November 13 in Toronto, ON.
Having finished runner-up in last year’s Longines FEI World Cup™ [...]

Toronto, Ontario – Erynn Ballard of Tottenham, ON, and Enchanted won the $25,000 Knightwood Hunter Derby on Tuesday, November 7, at the Royal Horse Show, held as part of the 95th Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto, ON.
Ballard and Enchanted, a six-year-old mare owned by Christel Weller, entered the Ricoh Coliseum as the penultimate entry. [...]

By Kelly Bowers
Canadian Shelley Peterson and her husband David run Fox Ridge Stables in Caledon, ON which is home to over 20 horses. Shelley wears many hats as the mother of 3 adults and grandmother of 4 young grandsons, as wife, actress, stable owner, and businesswoman. She is also the best-selling author of eight novels [...]